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    228 THE TOMAHAWK. [October 5, 1867.

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    NURSERIES OF CRIME.

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    Mrs. J agger, of Wood lane grove, Totten...

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    Paynklkss Dentistry.—Drawing a certain A...

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    "JULIET NO. II."

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    The pen still wet with tears of real reg...

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    We Hail With Sincere Satisfaction The Re...

    that the Palace choir is their weak point . One of the noteworthy features in the vocal music was , the performance ( we believe , for the first time in public ) , of an unusually graceful song from Mr . Sullivan ' s with MS . delicacy Opera , ^ b entitled ^ y Miss the Edith — Sapphire Wynne ^ , * Necklace would seem ; -. _ the . song to - _ promise ^ - which _ . _ __ was well .. sung _ for _ __

    ways the remainder of publishers ot the are work , however , were , it inscrutable made known , and to we the will world not ask . how The - it happens that the work has not been heard in its integrity . The libretto is from the pen of Mr . H . F . Chorley , whose dramatic efforts have not been invariably greeted with unqualified success ; we will hope howeverthat in this casethe exception and not the rule will be placed

    before the , public . , On Saturday last , the programme of the Palace concert contained delssoh the symp n , hony "Weber in ' s B Concert flat of Beethoven Stuck , for , the the p Overture iano , executed ATeerestille by Miss , by A M gnes en" Zimmermann , & c , & c , good enough music , truly , and sufficiently varied in its character to satisfy the most exacting .

    It is not often that we have an opportunity of praising any pviblic entertainment without many reservations ; thus it is a pleasure , and , we may add , almost a duty to bear tribute to the manner in which music is understood and executed at the Crystal Palace .

    228 The Tomahawk. [October 5, 1867.

    228 THE TOMAHAWK . [ October 5 , 1867 .

    Nurseries Of Crime.

    NURSERIES OF CRIME .

    Mrs. J Agger, Of Wood Lane Grove, Totten...

    Mrs . J agger , of Wood lane grove , Tottenham , bids fair to reach a higher pinnacle of fame than her finger-gnawing namesake in "Great Expectations . " She has furnished a text for many sermons in this last week ' s journals , which ought to be productive of some good effect-But one of the delightful peculiarities of this Christian peoplewhose

    supremacy in virtue and on the sea is undisputed , is , that they , do all their moral indignation by deputy . Some time-honoured abuse , common because easily concealed , is dragged to-light ; the moral Englishman or Englishwoman sits down and reads two or three stirring leading articles on the question , and conceives his or her duty done ; the next

    day they practice or encourage the same abuse . We have little hope , though the inquest on Mrs . Jagger ' s nurse-child happily occurred in the dull season , that these bursts of virtuous indignation which followed this " revelation of a social mystery " will prove worth more than the paper on which they were written .

    We are not going to pour our scathing wrath on the head of Mrs . Jagger . She , and such as she , are but the creations of others . It is the parents of these children who seem to us to deserve the blame . " The young lady of wealth and position , " who gave her illegitimate child into fT the »_ charge - ' of a woman - " who - only required six shillings a week to

    clothe ^ ^ ^ ^ ^^ ^ and - ^_ r _^ ^ ^ feed ~ — — ^^ fc it , may .. have _ , saved her honour _ , but _ she has ^^^ not — " repaired -- " — her damaged virtue . It may be a veiy wicked thing to have an illegitimate child , but having given birth to it , we do not see how the mother ' s duties can be less towards that child than if it were born in wedlock v . v ¦ " - " »¦ - -v — ¦¦ — — ; y ' we — should say they — j oug ^ 3 ht to be — greater ^ j __ - _ . -. The — _ concealment _ _ _ _

    of the mother ' s and father ' s names would hardly have been possible had they not been persons of wealth and position ; that it was justified by that circumstance we cannot admit . The young lady threatened to commit suicide were her disgrace known ; but if she could overcome her ^ maternal q ^^ ^ ^ " ^ T ^* ^^^ ^ fe ^» ^ ^^^ ^^ ^ instinct " ¦ w >^ ^ ^~ m ^^ so - » —~ — far i- ~ — as — - - - »— to —r - _ - send — —_ - - — — ~ her - - _ child — — more — thanahundred — __ . _ . _ _ . — _ — miles _ _ - ^_ __ away _ v v _ — j

    from her to a woman , who , she must have known , could not have attended to it properly , or given it sufficient food , she surely might have overcome her sense of shame sufficiently to have stopped short of this desperate resort . It is the mothers who send their children to these Mrs . Jaggers , on whose heads the guilt of the childrens' deaths lies , and it is mere

    hypoci'isy to propose to punish the woman who takes a nurse-child for a weekly stipend , on which it is impossible she can afford to feed it properl provid y , and for to her leav child e unnoticed , but lacking the mother the courage , who at , possessing once to murder the mean it , su s b to - mits it wilfully to a process of slow starvation . morality But a which far wider exists question in this is involved country in whi this ch matter practicall j . The y teaches system that of

    concealment ^ p ^ ^ - ^^ m ^ ^^^ p ^^ ^ m v g w v ^ ^ ^— - ^ of ^ - ^_ ^ r vice — — — - — — is better — — — — — - than — — - virtue ^ g , , pretending - ^ — — to g derive — — itself — - — from culcate a the relig noblest ion , which and , purest if rightl system y understood of morals , or ever practised known , , is should a species inof organized hypocrisy which cannot exist much longer . Either we must abandon ourselves to the open , and so far preferable , profligacy of the seventeenth 9 - ^ gg - _ century ¦ or we t must remould ___ T _ our _ .. reli _ gionon the basis

    of ^ ^ ^ ^^ natural V W ^^ W H ^ ^^ morality ^^ ^ _ v ^ - ^ - ^ — -m . w - — The m , -j ™— — state - —— - ^ - - of society - , which takes ^—^ no , note of unchastity , as long as the consequences of it are concealed , is rotten at the core . Better by far an avowed infidelity , than that spurious religion which enforces no virtue but that which consists in appearance . We may plume ourselves on the purity of our Court—on the elevated ,

    moral tone ( God save the mark !) of our family life ; but the time must come when we shall be no longer able to impose upon ourselves , as we have long ceased to be able to impose upon others . That it may come soon must be the earnest wish of those who , allowing themselves to drift with the stream , yet despise themselves for their weakness , and yearn for something like sincerity , whether in Vice or Virtue .

    Paynklkss Dentistry.—Drawing A Certain A...

    Paynklkss Dentistry . —Drawing a certain Ass . -Judge ' s teeth by depriving him of his post .

    "Juliet No. Ii."

    "JULIET NO . II . "

    The Pen Still Wet With Tears Of Real Reg...

    The pen still wet with tears of real regret for the clumsy devotion which has daubed its vulgar varnish over the natural colours to which of Miss a second Terry can Juliet lay in claim this , year is again of Expositions dipped to 1867 chronicle . the appearance To launch out into Taylorisms and rave about the brilliancy of Mrs . sti Scott — gmatised Siddon 1 as ' s ridiculous performance and ¦ would would indeed be to do be quite what as we unjustifiable have already

    the —^^^^ foll — — y of Terriolatry - ~« -w — ~ m- —— ; m- and w ~_^ yet m r w _ - _ - ^_ there ^ w— —m _ V - ^ v were ~^ v ^ ^* ^^ moments ^ B » W ^ q . ^» V — ^ * ^ in » 4 ^ ^ the ^ *^ ^ ^ ^ M . \ perfor j ^ f * * - as ^ 1 ^ - mance " Eureka , at , " the had Haymarket we airived , at which the beg would inning have , and tempted left at the one end to of cry a phrase . There were bursts of girlish naivete , of winning grace which unstudied sent the true truth thrill of her throug artless h one art ' . s startled In such blood scenes , taken as the aback fifth for by the instancein the second actit surely must be genius which flashes out in

    that irresistible , cajolery , that childish tenderness which conquers the tedious egotism of her complaining nurse . It is these sparks of genius which of the Shakspeare make us hope of whom that time we and are all stud so y proud will g . ive us an actress worthy If Mrs . Scott Siddons loves her art , and we ' are led to believe she does soshe will follow advice g % iven her in all honesty 9 and kindness . It is

    , — ^^ — — — — ^ —— ^ " ^ — " ^ —^ ^^ ^ ^ r ^ perhaps an exaggeration of this sentiment which leads her astray in the tragic scenes of the play . We sincerely trust it is not a vain impression that her readings are the only correct which pushes her into an unpleasing stress on the points which she has to deliver . She allows herself to emphasize the lines delivered with an expressed punctuation which

    smacks more of the reader than the actress . Her attitudes are evidently moved by the same impulse as her delivery . Instead of throwing herself heart . and soul into the all-absorbing emotions of her young love ( in the balcony scene ) , there is an appeal to the audience , which , without being stagymakes the actress more prominent than yulietand lays

    bare the art , which she would conceal . Throughout the entire , performance there are evidences of earnest study , in the earlier scenes there are renderings of some phrases which , amount almost to inspiration ; but the charm of these early scenes bids us to expect more abandon in the love scenes , more passion in the tragedy—we don't get it . In the balcony

    meaning scene she of is her so trammelled out-pourings by of her love mission that we to think instruct more the of public " her postur in the - ing than her attractions , and the only impression on Romeo ' s mind must be that he has been hearing a charming preacher hold forth on a neverwearying text . She seems to check the impulse of her genius ( is it genius ?) to adopt the guidance of her own or perhaps another ' s talent

    and this caiuiot be too carefully avoided , for genius may be maltreated , , hampered by conventionality , and finally snuffed out by too much care . Talent is the fruit forced in the hot-house , educated by the gardener , and elaborated into a splendid imitation of the real thing . Genius -wants plenty of light and fresh air , and on its own soil flourishes triumphantly

    superior to its more expensive rival , while it possesses a flavour which no gardening can approach . It is not genius which prompts the ravings Mrs . Scott-Siddons indulges in before swallowing the potion given by JPriar which Rogers seems to have But a been yuliet furnished who suddenl for some y finds Phryne herself of in the a first boudoir empirehas some right to rave as an accompaniment ---. ~ — to __ the _ ___ eccentricities

    x of the , Haymarket * j scenic managers . __ At the same time the misconception of the tragic character of ytdiet may in some measure be corrected when the actress shall have become more familiar with the part . Mrs . being Scott-Siddons recalled , before we should the curtain imagine , full , y is admits timid : it , indeed and this , her timidity manner will on stand her in good stead , for it will lead her to listen to criticism , and

    will help her to look into herself , for timidity and great vanity seldom go Certainl hancl-in y -hand in this . lady ' s case some little vanity is allowable ; f or nothing is more charming than her face when under the influence of that same timidity . You have before you the living type of those lovely heads Sir Joshua Reynold seems to have kept exclusively for himself .

    And when she first appears in her simple dress of peach-satin , but for evidence of indisposition to which yuliet must necessarily have been a stranger , one feels nothing incongruous in the idea that she would be fourteen " come Lammas eve at night , "' a statement which would have been received as eminently preposterous with any other lady in the part .

    It is too , this extreme youth in appearance combined with the sovithern first brilliancy sight to of her be accepted dark eyes b and the curling audience mouth without , which that cause slight chill love which at a colder and more calculating y temperament would be apt to engender as suggesting conduct at once forward and improbable , so that the natural sympathy raised by the actress in her favour makes all the more

    disappointing the falling off in the last acts , and the marvellous resemblance the absence in features of that to intellec tfie Siddons t which brings is so p more rominen prominentl t in the portrai into no ts left ice o f our great tragedienne . To criticise the Haymarket company would take up too much space . We might say that the Prince of Verona looked more like Mr . Coe than could ever not , co that nceal the Br aid dour benea of t the h bu embroidery t we have onl Bcnvolufs room to doublet est to Mrs . Chippendale that a few wrinkle ; s painted on y her comel sug y f g ace

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  • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Oct. 5, 1867, page 228, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/king-y1kbzq92ze2720/page/8/